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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
2. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?
3. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?
4. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
5. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?
Short Essay Questions
1. When and where did Dorr’s Rebellion occur? How does the author describe the surrounding circumstances of this event in Chapter 10?
2. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?
3. How does the author describe Mexico’s land area and status after 1821 in Chapter 8?
4. How does the author describe the growing violence surrounding slavery in the 1860s and 1870s in Chapter 9?
5. How does the author compare and contrast the treatment of women to that of the Native Americans in Chapter 7?
6. What choice were the Native American people given in regard to their futures and their homes, according to the author in Chapter 7?
7. How does the author describe the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in Chapter 5? How successful were the Americans in the first battles?
8. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?
9. How does the author describe Virginia’s “chain of oppression” in Chapter 3?
10. Why did the English send 1,000 soldiers to Virginia in 1676, according to the author in Chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the surrounding circumstances of the American Civil War and the battles, casualties, and aftermath of the war. What were the tensions like between the North and South following the Union victory? How was order maintained by the government at this time?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the origins of African slavery in the American colonies, particularly in the colony of Virginia. How many European colonists lived in the settlement when African slaves were first shipped to the colony? How common were slaves? How much did they cost? Where in Africa and the islands did the slaves originally come from?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the colonization of the Americas and the settlements of the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and other colonists that came to the New World to establish governance. Where did the first Puritan settlers land? What indigenous people lived in these regions? How many Native Americans died as a result of disease brought by the Europeans? How many died as a result of war and violence?
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